Air Force Career
Captain Button was commissioned through the Air Force ROTC program at New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, New York, where he received a degree in aerospace engineering in 1990. He spent four years at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas as a T-37 first assignment instructor pilot (FAIP) before transferring to the A-10 at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. He had been an Air Force pilot for five years before the crash.
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